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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03
FOREIGN.

The Abyssinians near Massowah de-
mand 100000 thalers ransom for the
italian prisoners.
The Italian Government has arranged
for an International competition of corn
dryers, to be opened at MILAN May L.
AUSTRALIAN advices state that sixty
lives were lost by the recent floods ia
Brisbane. Queensland. The damage to
property was enormous.
The paupers at the New Ross County
Wexford, Ireland) Workhouse have taken
possession Of the institution and still
hold it against the authorities.
SIX lives were lost Friday by an ex-
plosion in the Clutch colliery at Shondda,
Wales. Twenty nine men were rescued
uninjured.
The striking miners of LaRarkshire,
Scotland, have agreed to resume work
and then discuss the difference existing
between them and the mine owners.
The lava from Mauna Loa, on the is
land of Hawaii, recently Travelled twenty
miles down the mountain in two days
Subsequently vein of fire burst forth
and followed the line of the flow to til Q
seaside.
The editor of Berlin newspaper was
sent to prison for month for printing
the false statement that the czar shot tn g
military attache of the German legation
at st. Petersburg.
The Vienna Fremdenblatt says that
many of the inhabitants of AlsaceLor-
raine who desired to remain neutral in the
event of war between Germany and
France are applying to be made citizens
of Austria.
The Canadian elections Wednesday re-
suited in the return of a maj ority of Con-
sentative members of the Dominion Pal
lament, which will continue Sir John A.
Macdonald in power. The Government
has about thirty majority. The Nova
Scotia secessionists were badly defeated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03
FII5ES AND CASUALTIES.

By fall of earth in mine at Lavant
Ontario, three men were killed and two
others were seriously injured.
LEONARD Brooks, workman, was fatal
ly injured at Clinton, ILL.,, by a carwheel
falling on him.
HARMON LOEB, clothier st Attica, Ind,
was burned out Thursday. Loss, $4,000;
insured.
F. E. HARRIMAN's dwelling at Appleton,
Wis, was destroyed by fire Friday morn
ing. Ida Manager, servant, aided in
saving her master and mistress in a he
roic manner. The financial loss is about
$4,000.
WHILE sitting at his desk in school
loom at Marquette, a lad named Mitchell
was dangerously wounded by the acct
dental discharge of pistol in his pocket.
FIRE destroyed the Rugg block at Hav-
erhill, Massachusetts, valued at 100000,
and the American house at Sun Prairie,
Wis.
Mrs. MATILDA WARREN was murdered at
Cincinnati by ruffian named Edward
Jordan. She was wheeling her child when
the ruffian upset the carriage, and upon
being demonstrated with, shot hel and
made his escape.
A CYCLONE passed through Oroville,
in Central California, Monday night, and
for distance Of six miles carried every
thing before it, destroying fences and
cabins.
BETWEEN 3 and O'Clock Tuesday morn
ing the large frame building owned and
occupied as an ice factory by Huse, Hol-
den 81 Co., of ST. Louis, and situated at
the corner of Scott and Nineteenth street
was destroyed by fire. The chemicals
used for freezing purposes exploded, the
reports of which were heard for blocks
around. The machinery was badly
damaged. Loss, $4,000; Insured,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS
WASHINGTON.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND said to have had
three-hour conference on Sunday with
Speaker Carlisle as to the latter's accept
ance of the treasury portfolio.
THE director of the mint reports the
production of gold in the United States
for 1885 at S35 100000, and the yield of
silver at $49,S95,930.
COMMISSIONER BLACK asks an appro-
priation of 100000 and the addition
of 221 clerks to his force to adjust pen
sion claims by soldiers of the Mexican
war.
SENATOR SAWYER proposes TO amend the
general deficiency bill by directing the
secretary of the treasury to pay to GER
tain steamship company sum equal to
$1G0 and sixty days rations for every
adult negro who shall emigrate to Africa
on its vessels.
THERE lis no probability of an extra
session. The only cause for one would be
some of the appropriation bills. But
notwithstanding the backward state of
these bills, members of the appropria-
ton committees say they will all become
laws.
IKE house of representatives passed
bn0 III piOIudGIo anu COISu1ar dppEOpr1d-
ton bill. b. vote of SO to 16O the Texas
seed bill failed to pass over the presi-
dents veto. The vote against considera-
ton of the pension veto was 14O to 49,.
ATTY. GEN. GARDLAND has given an opin-
ion TO the treasury department that the
Chinese restriction act does not apply to
Chinese women who accompany other
Immigrants to this country in the capaci-
ty Of nurses or servants.
THE senate passed a bill Gre
ating the department of agriculture and
labor, with secretary and assistant Sec
rotary, to be appointed and paid like the
heads of other departments. The new
department. is to be transferred to the win
ter service of the signal-service bureau.
THE house of representatives, by
vote or IT'S to 1876, refused to pass the
dependent pension bill over the presi-
dents veto. A senate amendment to the
post Office appropriation bill, setting
aside, 100000 for Central and South
American mails was not concurred in, tie
vote being 100 to 157.
The report of the committe of the
whole on the Senate amendments to the
post Office appropriation bill was called
up in the House. The first three amend
ments were concurred in. The fourth
amendment, approrriating 100000 to
contract for the carrying of the foreign
mails on American vasseIs to Central and
South America, was non-concurred in and
a conference was ordered
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.

6DoMINICo SANDELLA was fatally stabbed
in New York Wednesday night by an
other italian IN dispute as to their re-
spectlve ability as singers.
VIM. t. BINGHAM, a prominent lawyer of
Boston, has been arrested for the embez-
Element of $4,000 from two old ladies
for whom he was trustee. He invested
the money in non-paYing enterprise In
the south. -.
LIGHTNING fired the cotton docks at
Tompkinsville, Staten Island. Two en-
ployes were killed by falling walls, and
the estimated loss by the flames is $780,
900.
L. J. HARDEsTF, deputy warden in the
penitentiary at Baltimore, was on Sunday
struck with slung shot by a convict.
The barber sprang forward and saved the
officers life.
A. E. KENDLEI, city treasurer at Iron
Mountain. Michigan, reports having been
robbed of $4,000 by two strangers, who
entered his store III the daytime and sent
him to the cellar to fill an order.
EDWARD D. TUCKER, a Chicago drum
mer, who, upon the strength OF a Utah
divorce, cast off his Chicago wife and
welded a Minnesota girl, was Tuesday
lodged in the Joliet Penitentiary to serve
three years for bigamy.
The storm which has just subsidized
along the Rocky mountain range from
the British line to New Mexico, is believ-
ed to have caused the death of 25 per
cent. of the cattle. Passengers travelling
from Denver to Lincoln, Sunday, saw
cattle buried to their heads in the snow.
The mutilated remains of man were
found in trunk at Pitsburg Thursday
morning, the arms and legs having been
amputated ana the top of the skull sawed
off. The trunk had been sent from Gin
cinnati, consigned to "James Osborn
of whom nothing is known. The remains
are believed to have been shipped by a
medical student.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03
GENERAL NOTES.

Coal has been found at Jacksonville
Ill.,, at depth of 161 feet, causing much
rejoicing in that city.
The number of persons killed on the
railroads in Iowa last year was 131-twen-
ty-fve less than in 1885.
5THE wife of the Confederate Genera
Joseph E. Johnson died at Washington
Tuesday night.
The Eastern Iowa and Western Him
oils Bee-keepers Association began its
fifth annual session in Davenport Thurs
day. The last season was one of the
best ever known for honey.
FOURTEEn Sioux children com pleted
their course Of study at the manual in
stitute near Wabash Indiana, and will
next week be sent back to Indian Terri
tory. to take charge of schools or farms,
A heavy snow-storm swept over the
eastern slope of tho Rocky mountains,
and besides the damages to telegraph
wires several persons were frozen and
hundreds of cattle were buried. Heavy
snow also visited Michigan.
JOHN D. CooMBs, one of the Oldest resi-
dents of Grant county, Wis, committed
suicide at Beetown by taking poison
ra ther than go to the poorhouse, to which
he had been ordered by the authorities.
TWENTY-FIVE bags containing samples
of American oats to be submitted to the
German governments, were sent to Liver
pool from New York on the steamer Scro-
tia last Saturday.
In the matter of the recent disastrous
collision at Republic, on the Baltimore
and Ohio road, the coroE er's jury lays the
blame wholly upon the company, which
was using poor engine and employed
careless or inexperienced trainmen.
The sale has been consummated of
Lookout Mountain, celebrated as the scene
of the battle among the clouds. COM
pany has been organized 70 build broad
gauge railroad by July 1, and erect the
handsomest hotel in the South on the his
toric heights. Work on the railroad will
commence AFT once
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03
JOHN SHERMAN RESIGNS
Senator john Sherman Tenders His
Resignation as President Pro
TempOre.
Brief Statement Showing Why this
Action is Deemed Necessary at
the Present Time.

olspatcn from Washington stats that
senator Sherman has deemed it wise to
resign hlsSposltlon as presiding officer
or the Senate, to take effect OH February
70. The reason assigned for this is that,
as MS present term as United States SEN
ator Will expire on March 4. next he of
course could not hold the Office as Presi-
dent of the Senate during the long recess
as he would not be sworn, and he recon-
mends that Senator be chosen President
pro tempore whose term of office will not
expire until after the meeting of Congress
in December next. The position of pre-
sident in the Senate is not so i'm.
portant in the organization of
the government as it was some years ago
when the Senate adjourned on March
without electing president pro tempore.
The omission or neglect on the part of the
Republicans to elect presiding officer of
the Senate at the time might have been a
very important matter, for before the
Senate convened again Gen. Garfield
died. Mr.. Arthur, who was Vice PresI-
dent, and by virtue of that office President
Of the Senate, had become President and
If he, too, had died in the interim the
control of the administration woaId have
passed directly to the speaker of the
House, who was Democrat. 1t has been
the custom in preceding years for the
Vice President to vacate the chair
the day before the final adjournment
in order to permit the election of pres
ident pro tempore. But there was strong
feeling among the Republicans in the Sen
ate at that time for many reasons, and
Mr.. Arthur did not choose to do this
Now, however, the Presidential secession
bill is a law and the line of succession to the
Presidencyis no longer through the presid-
ing officers of the two houses. But the SEN
ate, nevertheless, would be put to great
without the election of
President pro tempore at the meeting
Of congress in December, as there would
be no official who could then swear in the
new senators except the secretary Of the
senate, and in fact call that body to or
der. Besides there are some things ex-
ecutive in their character like the care of
some parts of the building which have
been placed by tradition is net by law in
the hands of the president OF, the senate,
so that if there should not be president
pro tempore between March and Decem-
Der some portions of the technical ad-
of the senate would be head
less. There is a pecuniary advantage
which some of the senators do not over
look. The presiding officer of the senate
is entitled to $4,000 more per annEm
than the other senator's
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03
" Two Soups"
Placer Cali Herald.


Two rural-looking strangers went into
one OF Auburn's frst-class hotels the 9TH
er day for dinner. Seating themselves at
the dining table, they were approached
by the pretty waiter girl in attendance
and asked one after the other If they
would have soup. They both replied in
the affirmative, and the girl, starting to-
ward the kitchen, cried out:
'Two soups"
"Hear that?" said one Of the strangers
to the other.
mo, what?" inquired stranger number
two.
"Why, that waiter girl called US two
soups"
'She did? Well, don't let us make any
fuss about it now. Let US show them we
are well bred if they are not, and after
dinner we'll go to some other house.
Physicians Have Found Out
That communicating and foreign element in the
blood, developed by indigestion, is the cause of
rheumatism. This settles upon the sensitive sub
cutaneous covering of the muscles and ligaments
of the Joints causing constant and shifting pain,
and aggregatng a caicareous, chalky deposit
which produces stiffness and distortion of the
Joints. No fact which experience has demon
strated in regard to Hostetter'S Stomach BitterS
has stronger evidence to support than this, name
ly, that this medicine of comprehensive uses
checks the formidable and atrocious disease, nor
is it less positively established that it is prefer
able to the poiSonS often used to arrest since the
medicine contains only salutary ingredients 1t
IS also signal remedy for malarial feverS, con-
situation, dyspepsia, kidney and bladder all
ments, debility and other disorders. See that
YOU get the genuine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03
PEOPLE WE READ OF.

Mrs. James Brown Potter will surely
make her debut as professional actress,
in New York, in the fall.
Labouchere says that Mr.. James Russell
Lowell will return to England about the
end of April, for few months.
Mrs. James 4. Garfield, who has been
spending some weeks in New York, went
to Philadelphia Wednesday, and after a
short visit in that city will return to her
country home at Mentor, Ohio.
Mr.. Beecher, in advising students to
pursue their studies by day, says ''the
worst oil a man ever burns is the mid
night OIL"
The oldest ex-cabinet officer now living
is Historian Bancroft. who was President
Folks secretary of the navy forty-two
years ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03

The convict labor system in Georgia is
m lore inhuman than the slave system in
its worst days. The convicts are mostly
negroes sentenced to long terms of i'm
prisonment for petty offenses, and they
re worse treated by the contract over
GERS than they were by the hardest mas
ers before emancipation. 1t is reported
that Governor Gordon has set himself
dead against the system as it now exists.
If he destroys it as slavery was destroyed,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03
Tho Republicans Nominate Ingalls,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-The caucus of
republican senators, this morning, nomi-
mated Senator ingalls, to be the president
of the senate. There were % votes cast,
of which ingalls, got Is, Hoar s, Edmunds
1, Frye 1.
Mr.. Ingalls, was thereupon declared to
be the nominee of the caucus.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03

Mrs. LOGAN has selected the center Of
the circle at the north end of South park,
Chicago, for the burial place for herself
and Gen. Logan and the site for the mon
ument to Logan.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03
CONGRESSIONAL.
MONDAY, Feb. 81.

Senote-The ship canal bill was temper
arily laid aside, and the senate resumed
consideration of the river and harbor ap-
preparation bill, the question being on
the amendment offered by Van Wyck on
Saturday last, to the item of 100000 for
improving the Missouri river and which
was to the effect that 100000 should be
expended at Atkinson, Fort Leaven-
worth, Arrow Rock, Omaha, etc. He
modified it SO as to direct the expendi
ture Of half of the 100000 at those
points under the direction of the secre-
tary of war. The amendment as mo d.
ged was agreed to. On motion Of Allison
Sioux City a., was inserted as one OF the
points at which half of the, 100000 is to
be expended. The bill was then reported
to the senate from the committee Of the
whole and was passed without division.
The senate then took up the bill to in
corporate the ship canal company of
Nicaragua. Sen. Test offered an amend
ment that the act shall have no force or
effect until concession shall have been
secured from the government of Nicara
qua, and shall have been submitted to
and approved by congress. Rejected
without division. The bill then passed,
yeas SO nays 5. The senate then took up
the District of Columbia appropriation
bill and then went into secret session and
adjourned. -
Senate-Cobb lind. called Up the con-
ference report of the disagreement On
the bill repeating the timber culture and
desert land laws. By vote of 96 to 38
the report Of the conferees was accepted
Mr.. Cobb then moved that the house
refuse to recede from its disagreement to
the senate amendments, and agree to the
request for a further conference on the
pending question. Mr.. Cobb's motion
was then agreed TO and a further confer
ence was ordered. Tt was ordered that
the daily hour for the meeting of the
house shall be II o'clock. Adjourned.
TUESDAY, Feb. %.
Senate-Riddleberge presented pc
tition against the ratification of the
extraditiou treaty with Great Britain.
The bill to provide for the retirement
of United States legal tenders and ma
tional bank notes of small denominations.
and the issue of silver certificates, was
reported adversely and placed on the cal
endar. Beck said the adverse report was
a bare majority Of the committee, and ne
gave netice that he would call it up at an
early date The bill making an appro-
| priation for the military academy was
| then passed. Miller moved TO take up
the bill to create department Of agr1-
culture. Adjourned.
House-The house went into committee
of the whole for consideration of the senate
amendments to the sundry civil appropri-
alton bill. The recommendations of the
committee on appropriations were con-
Cured in and the committee having
risen confer ence was ordered on the
disagreeing votes of the two houses
Mr.. Bragg, of Wisconsin, from the com
mittee on military affairs, reported the
| bill which is intended Is a substitute for
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03

The senate on Saturday discussed,
amended and passed the bill to reimburse
depositors of the Freedmen's Savings d
Trust Co.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-03
His Heroism Gagged by Circumstances.
Boston Post

Boston GOSl-
It was thrifty archin, albeit of tender
years, who fell down on the icy sidewalk
and cut slight cash in his tough little
palm the other day. Some kindly passers-
by stopped to bind up his hand and offer
the little fellow consolation. A gentle
man gave him a dime, and when the lady
who wound her handkerchief around the
injured hand asked him if he did not feel
pretty comfortable, he replied with as
founding candor: "Yes'm, as comfort
able as Teller can fur 10 cents" That
boy had a sense of values.
Commissioner of Deeds for all the
States, Mr.. G.. E. Reardon, Baltimore, Md,
writes that he suffered for long time
with rheumatism which yielded to no
treatment until he applied st. Jacobs
Oil.
M. Chevreul recently celebrated the
centennial anniversary of his birth. A
Paris letter tells US that he is receiving
hundreds of letters from all parts of the
continent inquiring after the secret of
his strength and longevity. To these in
quiries he says that the secret of his long
life consists In two words, ''good health
For this gift he says he is indebted to his
par ents.-Dr. Foote's Health Monthly.
Ex-Congressman Weaver, Post Office
Department, Washington, D. c., consid-
ers Red Star Cough Cure remarkable
remedial agent. 1t contains no danger
Gus narcotics and costs but twenty five
cents.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-11

penses, or by private corporations to
meet their demands. To insure
such legislation will require more
information among the farmers,
such information as will enable
them to place statesmen at the head
OF departments Of government who
are honest and capable. One i'm
portant lesson has been learned oy
many members OF our order that
should be learned by all farmers:
that standing idle and grumbling
will not change results. This is not
the course pursued by Others. There
Is ever present in our legislative
bodies those who seek the enactment
OF laws granting special privileges
and benefits, even at the expense of
Others, and often do they obtain
legislation which is detrimental to
the best interests OF the country.
From the information acquired
through the grange, we have learned
that by indifference and neglect Of
duty as citizens, the farmers are in
great measure responsible for this
adverse legislation"
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-11

than any other man 10 have charge
OF the next national census. the
method he would employ to take an
industrial census is an important
announcement. He has reached
the conclusion that manufacturing
statistics, as contemplated by the
ordinary census schedule used
In the Federal censuses, can
not give such information as to
enable one TO classify wages to any
great extent or TO ascertain earn
ings. But the scheme he has laid
down, which he explains today, for
taking an industrial census is to
make inquiries about % the capital
invested in each industry, the term,
capital invested, meaning all the
capital used, in whatever form; (2)
the value Of the principal stock or
raw material used; (3) the gross
quantity and value Of articles manu-
featured. as represented by their
selling value; az tho number Of
partners or stockholders; the larg.
est, smallest and average number OF
persons employed, distinguishing as
to sex, and adults and children; (5)
the total wages paid during the
year, distinguishing also as to sex,
adults aud children; (6) the proper.
tion that the business OF the year
bore to the greatest capacity for pro-
duction OF the establishment; 90 the
number Of weeks in operation during
the year, partial time being reduced
TO full time.
Col. Wright, in is,ussiug the TAX
ing Of q census of occupations, de-
clared that the census of Massachu-
sets, take in 1886, whish will soon
be published and which he di-
rected, shows that there are moro
than 10000 different occupations in
which the people Of that State arc
cDga god
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-11

One more new Grange:
Brazilla, No. 525, Chautauqua
County, New York.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-11

The farmers Field Day" of the
Patrons Of Rhode Island, at Oakland
Beach, was one OF the largest gather.
lngs OF farmers ever held in the
State. Headed by State Master
James Draper, a special excursion
train OF twelve cars came from Mas
sachusetts. j. ii. Hale, state mas
ter OF Connecticut, and good dele
CATION OF Connecticut Patrons, also
assisted. Gov. Davis delivered an
address and other prominent citizens
we're present. Several more new
oranges are sin sight" in Rhode
Island.